Month: February 2010
sometimes we have a conversation like this one — from the film away we go
Verona De Tessant: Burt, are we f***-ups?
Burt Farlander: No! What do you mean?
Verona De Tessant: I mean, we’re 34…
Burt Farlander: I’m 33.
Verona De Tessant: …and we don’t even have this basic stuff figured out.
Burt Farlander: Basic, like how?
Verona De Tessant: Basic, like how to live.
Burt Farlander: We’re not f***-ups.
Verona De Tessant: We have a cardboard window.
Burt Farlander: [Looks at window] We’re not f***-ups.
Verona De Tessant: [Whispers] I think we might be f***-ups.
Burt Farlander: [Whispers back] We’re not f***-ups.
I bought a decaffeinated coffee table, you can’t even see a difference.
Author Unknown (via coffeechat)
wrappedcherry: My birthday is National Coffee Day? Free coffee for everyone!
zero1infinity: Wohow… on calories frappucciono > pizza
overheard at b&n cafe
girl 1: what’s the great gatsby about?
girl 2: i dunno.
girl 1: i think i was supposed to read it, but i never did. looks interesting.
girl 2: go tell it on the mountain? what’s that about?
girl 1: i dunno.
some day, i’m going to grow up & look like this hipster… (via lteagarden)
(Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lteagarden/)
paperbackgirl: look at what came in the mail; magic molly’s troubleshooting. you can buy your copy here.
Wie trinkst du deinen Kaffee? How do you like your coffee?
– schwarz (black)
– mit Milch (with milk)
– mit Zucker (with sugar)
– mit Süßstoff (with sweetener)
Ich trinke meinen Kaffee gerne schwarz mit Süßstoff und manchmal auch mit Milch. Mmmh. Lecker.
(I like to drink my coffee black with sweetener and sometimes with milk, too. Mmmh. Yummy.)
(via designinfo)
Paying for content and the great password problem
Pat Kiernan has an interesting take on the New York Times’s official announcement that they’ll start charging frequent users to access online content starting in 2011. And that is related to the endless “passwordization” of our lives in a digital world.
By going the road alone instead of opting to use something like the collaborative pay system marketed by Steven Brill of Journalism Online, the Times is guaranteeing regular readers the inconvenience of dealing with yet another account name and password. The iTunes model that Brill advocates is something the Times, as well as the rest of the industry, needs to consider.
Perhaps the answer to the problem news organizations are facing over paying for content lies in a failsafe password protection program (chip implanted in your brain or fingertips?) that would keep you safe from identity thieves while never ever letting you forget your login for Gilt Groupe right when that last Marc Jacobs top is up for grabs and 70 percent off.
From Jen Doll
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I find this bolded section particularly interesting. I’m not worried about identity theives but the huge stretch of administration required for when people lose their passwords, log in from different computers, no doubt people will share their passwords and then be very upset to find they account has stalled.
brocatus:
1. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are heading towards balanced synchronicity. The real-time web, as I have argued in the past, is the next logical step in the Internet’s evolution.
2. The complete disaggregation of the web in parallel with the slow decline of the destination web.
3. More and more people are publishing more and more “social objects” and sharing them online. That data deluge is creating a new kind of search opportunity.
(via zehnuhr)
1. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are heading towards balanced synchronicity. The real-time web, as I have argued in the past, is the next logical step in the Internet’s evolution. 2. The complete disaggregation of the web in parallel with the slow decline of the destination web. 3. More and more people are publishing more and more “social objects” and sharing them online. That data deluge is creating a new kind of search opportunity.(via zehnuhr)
Only the very top echelon of designers writes. And let me tell you, that top echelon writes like the wind: read Stefan Bucher, read Michael Rock, read Michael Bierut, read Jessica Helfand, read Sagmeister—these people are not only literate, they are wonderful writers…
natalia ilyin (via)
The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant.
Trent Reznor (via)
Designers should be arbiters of the truth: They should be the kind of people who stand up and tell it like it is, and that usually calls for courage.
Kevin Mattice (via clear war)
Es gehört oft mehr Mut dazu seine Meinung zu ändern, als ihr treu zu bleiben.
(Very often you need more courage to change your opinion than to stick to it.)
Friedrich Hebbel (via germanheit)
(via geometriques)
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury (via artpixie) (via atomicblonde) (via oneay) (via ilovereadingandwriting)
Coffeehouse Junkie 